your cel, like the other 13 cels I’ve seen for 
sale from this sequence to date, appear to be 
fakes (by fakes, I mean they’re not production 
cels).  See the comparison to the DVD screen 
capture below.

In this sequence on the DVD, there are 8 
different profile shots of Belldandy; the 5 
profile cels I’ve seen for sale (and have saved 
pictures of) all have significant differences 
from the video:

1.  there are 2 extra hair strands in 8 out of 8 
shots on the DVD that are not drawn in any of the 
5 cels,
2.  there are light areas on the front of 
Belldandy’s face in 8 out of 8 shots on the DVD 
that are not drawn on any of the 5 cels,
3.  this area is see-through in 8 out of 8 shots 
on the DVD, but is painted dark brown on 4 out of 
the 5 cels,
4.  this part of the hair is dark brown on 8 out 
of 8 shots on the DVD, but is light brown in all 
5 of the cels,
5.  this hair crosses behind the other hair in 8 
out of 8 shots on the DVD, but crosses in front 
of it in all 5 cels,
6.  highlights in the hair are noticeably 
different between the DVD and the cels in all 
cases.

Unlike the reproduction cels from the OVAs, some 
of the black lines on the cels (and the drawings 
that came with them) don’t match up with those in 
the video frames.  

On the DVD, there are also about 23 different 
shots in this sequence where both of Belldandy’s 
eyes can be seen.  All 7 cels I’ve seen for sale 
from this part of the sequence have several 
significant differences from the DVD frames.  The 
2 cels of Keiichi from this sequence also have 
obvious differences from the DVD.  I noticed this 
problem a couple of weeks ago while I was making 
screen captures of my cels (including 3 from this 
sequence)…  I think the reason this escaped 
everyone’s notice is that all these cels went up 
for sale around April, 2001, before they could be 
checked against the video which hadn’t yet been 
released in Japan.